The number of suicides in Japan has increased from approximately 22,000 per year from
1988 to 1997 to over 30,000 per year since then; this increase is among the most important …

The number of suicides in Japan has increased from approximately 22,000 per year in 1988–
1997 to over 30,000 per year since then. It has also increased in Mie prefecture during that …

The number of suicides in Japan has increased from approximately 22,000 per year in 1988–
1997 to over 30,000 per year since then, and this increase in numbers is one of the most …

Unemployment has become one of the most serious issues in the current labor market in
Japan, and empirical studies from the viewpoint of theoretical economics have progressed …

The number of suicides in South Korea totaled 4840 in 1995 and 8569 in 1998; in Japan,
suicides totaled 21,420 in 1995 and 31,755 in 1998. Suicide prevention is an important …

This paper focuses on the drastic increase observed in the Japanese male suicide rate in
the late 1990s and early 2000s and confirms unemployment and personal bankruptcy to be …

Background Unemployment is associated with suicide. However, it is unclear whether the
influence of unemployment is consistent on suicide across subgroups with different …

The number of suicides in Japan has increased from approximately 22,000 per year before
1997 to over 30,000 per year since 1998. As regards this rapid increase in suicides in …

This study investigates the abrupt increase in the number of suicides in Japan in 1998 and
the subsequent persistence of suicide thereafter; it does so by undertaking data …

Most previous studies on the relationship between unemployment and suicide use either
individual level data or large unit aggregate level data. The former typically fail to distinguish …